“Lecture on Haiti“, January 2, 1893, Chicago. via the public archive.
Category: history
Mary Church Terrel
Smithsonian Folkways – “Fredrick Douglass” from 1908 speech by Mary Church Terrel read by Ruby Dee. 1977.
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/169019417″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”100%” height=”450″ iframe=”true” /]Chicago, 1970s via Mark Rogovin
Frederick Douglass read by Ossie Davis
On work, payment, liberation, voice and language.
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/149859255″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /]From the 1966 album “Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 1”
www.folkways.si.edu/ossie-davis/aut…bum/smithsonian
Ossie Davis reads excerpts from Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, edited by Dr. Philip Foner, which traces the abolitionist and statesman’s life from early childhood through to his most significant political accomplishments. This first volume establishes the personal and educational foundation on which Douglass built his distinguished career, specifically addressing his birth into slavery, his battle to learn to read and how being forced to “drink the bitterest dregs of slavery” inspired his escape. (See also FW05526 Autobiography of Frederick Douglass, Vol. 2.)
Montgolfier
Expériences des frères Montgolfier à Versailles, le 19 septembre 1783 : [estampe] http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b69421710
Expérience des frères Montgolfier, le 19 septembre 1783, à Versailles : [estampe] http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6942170k
Herrn von Montgolfier wichtige Endekung der Luft Machine : [estampe] http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b6942175n
Machine aerostatique, de Mr. Montgolfier, construite dans le Jardin de Mr. Réveillon, rue de Montreuil Fauxbourg St Antoine au depens de l’Académie Royale des Sciences. Pl. IV : [estampe] / Sellier sculp http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b55001558k
In honor of her Majesty’s birthday. Under the immediate patronage of the Queen. Royal zoological gardens, Surrey. On Thursday, May 24th., 1838. The first ascent of the great Montgolfier balloon will take place at these gardens … [by J. W. Hoar] : [affiche] http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8509522d
Rawkus Records
The “Oral History“.
flight
Edward Glaeser – Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser, author of “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier” (2011).
A review.
Related:
Adam Davidson, David Harvey, Edward Glaeser and Seth W. Pinsky